It's an extremely small project with only 600 families total that will be able to qualify and it's being funded by a private company. It's a test run for potential ubi in the future.
The stockton program was rather successful and shut down the usual talking points that when given "free" money people would become lazy and wasteful, it instead enabled people to gain better employment because when you aren't stressing about money you're more willing to take positive career risks.
I hope ubi catches on soonish
I think we need to take half your paycheck and give to these people.
You're justifying racism on "oh is just small"? or am I misreading what you wrote?
You're misreading what I wrote, it's a small amount of people and I fully believe it can do way more. Stockton stuck to "people had to have lived in a neighborhood of Stockton in which the median income was at or below $46,033".
I don't agree with excluding others based on race and the idea that they can't suffer through poverty because of it and quite frankly reeks of distraction tactics. Make the poverty class fight over race while we ignore those that accumulate wealth.
If I understood correctly Oakland ubi scheme has put a lot of shit in to qualify, you have to be a person of color or identify as a person of color, you have to have a child under the age of 18 to qualify, I'm not entirely sure if they have a restriction on how many years you'd have to have lived in that area? Possibly but i don't think it was mentioned.
It's unnecessary and definitely not right, but it's on purpose.
If I could be assured that half my paycheck would go to medicare for all, improvement of the community, fighting food deserts, trade training and affordable housing and fighting poverty I'd happily give it up, i don't think that's a big deal.